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An AI search and discovery platform that enables developers to build fast, relevant, and personalized search experiences for websites and applications.

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6 alternatives to Algolia

Scira

Scira is an open source AI search engine that retrieves cited, real-time answers from the web without storing your queries. A self-hostable alternative to Perplexity; MIT licensed.

Free

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Scira is an open source AI search engine that retrieves cited, real-time answers from the web without storing your queries

11,610 stars1,461 forksTypeScript

Trieve

Trieve is an open source AI search and RAG infrastructure platform with hybrid retrieval, semantic search, and recommendation APIs for building knowledge bases and AI applications. Self-hostable; BSL 1.1 licensed.

Free

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Trieve is an open source AI search and RAG infrastructure platform with hybrid retrieval, semantic search, and recommendation APIs for building knowledge bases and AI applications

2,640 stars241 forksRust

Metarank

An open-source ranking service for building personalized semantic/neural search and recommendations with learning-to-rank.

Free

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An open-source ranking service for building personalized semantic/neural search and recommendations with learning-to-rank

2,414 stars107 forksScala

Jina AI

Jina AI is an open source embeddings API providing state-of-the-art multilingual text embeddings, rerankers, and neural search tools for semantic search and RAG pipelines. Apache 2.0.

Free

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Jina AI is an open source embeddings API providing state-of-the-art multilingual text embeddings, rerankers, and neural search tools for semantic search and RAG pipelines

647 stars67 forksTypeScript

Manticore Search

Manticore Search is an open source full-text search engine compatible with MySQL protocol, offering fast document search, faceted filtering, and real-time indexing. A self-hosted alternative to Elasticsearch; GPL-2.0 licensed.

Free

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Manticore Search is an open source full-text search engine compatible with MySQL protocol, offering fast document search, faceted filtering, and real-time indexing

11,758 stars624 forksC++

Meilisearch

Meilisearch is a fast open source search engine that delivers typo-tolerant, faceted full-text search in milliseconds, self-hosted with a single binary and no JVM dependency.

Free

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Meilisearch is a fast open source search engine that delivers typo-tolerant, faceted full-text search in milliseconds, self-hosted with a single binary and no JVM dependency

57,235 stars2,514 forksRust